TALKS #23 - THOSE WERE THE DAYS
welcome to a timetrip back to the 80ies ... when everything was better, well except of our taste in colour combinations and haircuts ... don't you think the guy who invented this palmtree-do should be trapped forever in the deepest dungeons of hell? het-hell. i bet the haircuts of the 80ies where the cause why hairdressers have to prove their gayness before getting their license nowadays ... anyway, those were the days. we all ran around in sneakers, funny t-shirts, listened to wild music, tried to shock our parents with piercing our faces and colour our skins ... wait ... i get the feeling that the only thing that really changed is that my back starts hurting when i bend down to pick my socks up ...
but something else changed. MY tv statin ... i mean the one they especially invented JUST FOR ME ... i am talking about music television ... changed into a constant ringtone commercial programm... i am to old for this ... i think i can understand what my parents thought, when i was glued to the screen in these days, watching flashing lights, streaming fabric, clothes and hair dancing in windmachine storms and very very weird people doing very very weird moves ... when you think about it it's ridiculous, but we thought it's wild ... anyway, i think they might felt like i feel now, when i am confronted with 7000 numbers per second ... 14 informations on screen and everything is so tiny ... *sigh ... but let's not think about that, let's think about the good old days when mtv was brandnew and wild and crazy and packed with wonderful clips. let's enjoy the songs that will always remind us on excellent but very very short movies
tracks in order of appearance:
video killed the radio star - the presidents of the united states of america
babooshka - kate bush watch the video
sweet dreams - eurythmics watch the video
word up - cameo watch the video
safety dance - men without hats watch the video
love is a battlefield - pat benatar watch the video
take on me - a-ha watch the video
jeanny - falco watch the video
girls on film - duran duran watch the video
the power of love - frankie goes to hollywood watch the video
posted by nico at 9:40 AM
13 Comments:
You are the queen!
Bowing before you, kissing your chucks...
we are not worthy!
Thank you oh ministress, thank you!
;D
I am jealous! I was born in '81 and I do not remember so much
:(
thx to my older cousins who introduced me to all of this and thx nico for the new cast. sounds really awesome and i love the a-ha video . . . hmm so good
i know what you mean . . . i hate mtv now and viva is even worse . . . and the fucked up commercials are always waking you up when you try to sleep after a huge party. and where the fuck did all the awesome vj´s go . . . what happened to charlotte and where did the japanese dude (believe kim was his name) go . . . questions over questions
damn it . . . i just remember . . . we did not have mtv back then *stupid wall* . . . huh
. . . believe must have been reruns or what ever what i saw *confusion*
Sweet Dreams are Made of These=A new Nico podcast! Whoopie!
I remember the 80's! Oh gosh. Reagan was president then and I marched on Washington for reproductive rights. I remember the beginnings of MTV. Does anyone even watch MTV anymore? I sometimes watch VH1 for its shows about music celebrities.
Let's see from the list I recognize:
Kate Bush
Eurythmics
Pat Benatar
Duran Duran
::downloading::
HAH reagan was president =D
do you remember "back to the future" who is president in 1985? - ronald reagan! - ronald reagan? the actor??? and who is VICE-president? JERRY LEWIS???
oh i love this movie
ale - don't be jealous ... we had no internet back then and no l-word and no podcasts ... hell, what did we do the whole day? no wonder we started to put new holes in our bodies ...
amy - oh yes, the wall, thank goddess we have free sight on the erzgebirge now ... and charlotte is singing with bela, and i also cannot remember the name of that funny japanese dude ... but i can remember sirin and her morning show *jiggeling eyebrows* i heard she was hired as host for the csd in cologne last year =D
and no! ... i didn't forget uta, i'm just too embarassed to answer that
Nico, I remember attending a speech Reagan gave when running for the Republican nomination in the 1970s and thinking, "This guy could never be president." Girl, was I ever proved wrong!
WOO HOO! I knew everyone except frankie goes to hollywood and falco. You made my day go sooo much faster and my co-workers were laughing at me rocking out.
Tomorrow I'll watch all the videos.
Thanks for all the fun!
Nico, that Pat Benatar song really took me back! Once again your podcast was entertaining and educational!
ahhh...thanks for that great music.
jeanny is one of my favorite falco songs.
in österreich ist es im momement schwer an falco vorbeizukommen....
tja and what should i say about music television: they are ringtone commercials interrupted with some music videos...
Oh Yes Nico.....
Those WERE the days.
But I am disapointed.
How could you talk about the 80's and not make mention of Nena and 99 Red Balloons?
i finally got around to listen to it and it was so good nico. loved the music, loved you talking about epileptic attacks . . . great cast. made me feel better probably one of the best :D
thx for putting it together
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